OOT Bags

I am putting in mine:

Bottled Water
North Fork Potato Chips
Homemade soap bar - olive oil scent
Lip Balm
'Vineyard' scented yankee candle
Travel size pack of Advil
Welcome Letter and Map to Wineries

Thanks girls!

I love the idea and would some how like to incorporate some winter themed things in there.

uhhh, how do you decide how many to make and where to leave them?

I was wondering about that and if I should do them. I know the only real OOT guests that will come are FI's mom and sister, who live in NC and my brother who just moved to Ohio. But everyone else is pretty much local (at least the people who will be coming to the wedding. we invited quite a few OOT but doubt they will come)

We tried for a 'NY Theme' because we had a lot of OOT guests. But it didn't last too long... :)

We had:

-packages of mini b&w cookies (buy them in Costco- they are delish! And were a big hit!)
-little boxes of cookies shaped like taxi cabs (they were in like an animal cracker box)
-2 bottles of water
-peanut m&m's
-package of trail mix
-mints
I feel like there was something else, but I can't think of what...

Oh, and we included a 'Playbill' spinoff of a welcome letter. My DH is very creative and wanted to do this, and I must admit it turned out really cute. We made little playbill brochures- based on real playbills. So, we had the 'cast'- pics and funny bios of everyone in our wedding party. A synopsis of 'acts'- it went through the many stages of our relationship, up until the wedding. We had a 'Scenes and Numbers' page- that went through the weekend- what was going on when; When people should be where. And then we included an article about LI that we had found in the NY Times.

People LOVED them. It was a nice way for OOT guests to not only have something to welcome them, and have something for them to read, but also a great way for people to know who was in the bridal party (we had 6 on each side + parents).

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Posted by mnttnbchbride

We tried for a 'NY Theme' because we had a lot of OOT guests. But it didn't last too long... :)

We had:

-packages of mini b&w cookies (buy them in Costco- they are delish! And were a big hit!)
-little boxes of cookies shaped like taxi cabs (they were in like an animal cracker box)
-2 bottles of water
-peanut m&m's
-package of trail mix
-mints
I feel like there was something else, but I can't think of what...

Oh, and we included a 'Playbill' spinoff of a welcome letter. My DH is very creative and wanted to do this, and I must admit it turned out really cute. We made little playbill

brochures- based on real playbills. So, we had the 'cast'- pics and funny bios of everyone in our wedding party. A synopsis of 'acts'- it went through the many stages of our relationship, up until the wedding. We had a 'Scenes and Numbers' page- that went through the weekend- what was going on when; When people should be where. And then we included an article about LI that we had found in the NY Times.

People LOVED them. It was a nice way for OOT guests to not only have something to welcome them, and have something for them to read, but also a great way for people to know who was in the bridal party (we had 6 on each side + parents).

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that is sooo creative!!!!

We got a free booklet from the NYS Tourism Department, and then added a pamphlet about the hotel they were staying in PLUS

2 mini bottles of water
2 mini cans of coke
2 mini cans of Diet coke
gum
granola bar
mini bag of pretzels
mini bag of cookies
mini bag of ritz bits
mints
peanuts
mini hershey bars

We only had about 20 bags to do, and I went shopping pre-halloween so getting all the mini stuff was easy and helped keep the costs down.

Combos
chocolates
peanuts
water
mini bottles of wine
juice boxes for kids
gum
life savers
crackers and cheese
mini hersheys
granola bars